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Nintendo Revolution Rumours Emerge
In more next-gen console news, ComputerandVideoGames.com has rumourmongering info on the new Nintendo console. Interesting bits like gyroscope sensing controllers and an online service make for intriguing ideas, but no details yet on what's going to make this console a revolution. From the article: "And what's revolutionary about Revolution? The inside source claims that talking about that "would get him into too much trouble" ... He is quoted as saying: "if you think too hard you'll never guess what it is. It's nothing 'new', technically speaking. It's just something that hasn't really been applied to videogames yet."
One of the rumors mentioned in the article:
Motion and tilt-sensing gyroscopes will be used in the controllers.
Great! Why don't we go and encourage those annoying people who love to swing their controller around even though it makes no difference. Well now it will! I wonder how this would be incorporated into a fighting game...
Actually, just thinking about doing a barrel roll in a flying game makes me want to try this out, silly a feature as it seems.
why? forty-two.
Hasn't this already been proven by games like Rez and sites like GGA? :D
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